"Trump’s approval rating stands at 40 percent in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, slightly more than his 36 percent approval rating when last measured in January. It's also the highest he’s enjoyed in Post-ABC polling since his first 100 days in office.

Iirc, Rasmussen is a biased poll skewed to the right. Of course the populace gets a chubby every time we bomb or launch missiles at someone so that will drive the numbers up generally of any idiot in the Oval Office.

The Rasmussen poll is based on likely voters. The Gallup poll is based on all Americans.

Gallup has Trump at 40 percent. When he took office in January he was at 46 percent, so he has only dropped 6 percent since inauguration day. In November on election day he received 46 percent of the popular vote.

I don't believe most members of this forum/website or in mainstream America need a poll to tell us that Trump is a shitty president. He's probably the worst we've had in a long time, going back to Nixon?

The national polling average had Clinton ahead by two-three percentage points and she won by exactly 2.1%.

No. The national polling average was "spot on". Not the polls.

By analogy, if someone had said in 2016 that Clinton was 40 years old but Trump was 100, the average (70) would have been "spot on". And yet that person would have been badly wrong about both.

In the same way, the polls did well when you averaged over the states, but they got the (key) states themselves badly wrong. Which is why you had major outlets on election day giving Clinton a ridiculously high chance of winning, often in the ninety percents.

[jaredsxtn]: The national polling average had Clinton ahead by two-three percentage points and she won by exactly 2.1%.

No. The national polling average was "spot on". Not the polls.

By analogy, if someone had said in 2016 that Clinton was 40 years old but Trump was 100, the average (70) would have been "spot on". And yet that person would have been badly wrong about both.

In the same way, the polls did well when you averaged over the states, but they got the (key) states themselves badly wrong. Which is why you had major outlets on election day giving Clinton a ridiculously high chance of winning, often in the ninety percents.

Are you just trying to fuck with me now? Did you read what I wrote? You quoted me and then went on a rant about something entirely different.

The national polling average had Clinton winning by 2-3 percentage points. They were accurate.

They also didn't get the (key) states "badly wrong." Donald "won" because a handful of pissed off white people in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin showed up by 0.2, 0.7 and 0.8 percentage points more than Hillary voters. That is WELL within the margin of error that any poll could EVER have predicted.

Donald "won" the Presidency because 79,646 Bernie or busters and other assholes in three states decided to overrule the will of the American people.